Devendra Fadnavis

Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is the 18th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra state, India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is also the president of the Maharashtra state unit of the BJP and a MLA of Maharashtra from Nagpur South West. His political career commenced in the early nineties, when he became ward President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in Maharashtra. At the age of 21, Fadnavis became the youngest municipal corporator of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and served as corporator for two consecutive terms, in 1992 and 1997.

Shiv Sena minister, Subhash Desai, though claimed CM Devendra Fadnavis will denotify the petrochemical project at Nanar in Ratnagiri’s Rajapur tehsil, the state administration had no such instructions till Thursday evening.

Announcing a fresh tie-up with the Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Monday ceded one of its demands: shifting of the proposed mega oil refinery from Nanar in the ecologically sensitive Konkan.

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